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buying nspire? please help me make the right choice.
« on: July 29, 2010, 06:52:28 pm »
Ok the nspire has been looking alot more favorable compared to how it used to, to me.

with all the junk about os 2.1 i would like opinions and everything from everyone.


Nspire  or Nspire CAS????

Touchpad  or Clickpad???

New or Used???


thanks all.
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Re: buying nspire? please help me make the right choise.
« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2010, 06:59:57 pm »
If you want 84+ emulation, get the regular Nspire/Nspire Touchpad.

Try to get the clickpad as much as possible, so you can use Ndless earlier, but if you don't mind waiting, you could always get the Touchpad instead.

New or Used doesn't matter, but check the seller reputation. If he only has like 50 sales and doesn't even have 98% or higher, avoid. Also AVOID recycling companies at all costs! They don't test the stuff they sell to see if it still works.
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Re: buying nspire? please help me make the right choise.
« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2010, 07:30:11 pm »
I would reccomend the Non CAS, but the decision on clickpad/touchpad dosen't really matter.  Just go with the cheapest one you can find then spend an extra $10 to either buy the touchpad for the clickpad or the clickpad for the touchpad.  The only reason I would reccomend getting the original light blue one is because that is the only color you can get the clickpad in and it would look strange in the new dark blue one.  Using Nleash, you can downgrade either of them to 1.1 provided that you own a clickpad.  Gook luck with your Nspire purchase and feel free to ask if you have any more questions! :)
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« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2010, 08:26:12 pm »
how about the life of a calculator?

lcd's will slowly weaken also the memory itself will go bad eventually. and hardware as i/o ports.

should i wory about this if i am getting a used one?
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« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2010, 02:40:55 am »
Not really, unless it is somehow a 10-year-old prototype. :P
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« Reply #5 on: July 30, 2010, 02:49:06 am »
Non-CAS clickpad has the most hardware, plus immediate Ndless compatibility. I recommend it.
Inevitably, some day the CAS OS will be thrown onto the non-CAS, and then CAS owners will be sad that they have no special keypad.
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« Reply #6 on: July 30, 2010, 02:51:41 am »
One concern I have about the older Nspires, especially the CAS: will newer OSes eventually break compatibility with these old models? For some reasons, with what TI does sometimes I am a bit worried x.x
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« Reply #7 on: July 30, 2010, 02:55:22 am »
Well, OS 1.7/2.0 should last you a while, at least for math purposes.
By the time TI adds proper graphics and I/O commands to Nspire BASIC, we'll probably have Axe ported to the Nspire :P
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« Reply #8 on: July 30, 2010, 03:01:04 am »
Lol that would RULE. I think if this happens, the same syntax should be used, or something very close.
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« Reply #9 on: July 30, 2010, 12:14:03 pm »
Many college classes don't allow calculators with symbolic manipulation.  The CAS is one of those calculators.  Yet another reason to purchase a non-CAS nspire :)
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« Reply #10 on: July 30, 2010, 12:16:52 pm »
1 Non-CAS

2 Clickpad

3 Buy it now or else you will explode!

4 I recomend a used one because it might not have the power management bug the newer ones have
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« Reply #11 on: July 30, 2010, 12:17:18 pm »
Yeah, I'd also say a non-CAS Nspire, and preferably Touchpad (probably more future-proof). It also means that you cannot currently easily use OS 1.1 and Ndless 1, but Ndless 2 will eventually come.
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Re: buying nspire? please help me make the right choise.
« Reply #12 on: July 30, 2010, 02:25:49 pm »
I would recommend getting a clickpad non-cas because:

A. (Only if it's used for school) Teachers who haven't heard about nspires will be wary of letting you use it on a test, but they're fine with the 84 mode.
B. Ndless works on clickpads.
C. Ndless programs need the clickpad, so unless you want to convert keymappings yourself to the touchpad when ndless 2 comes out, yeah...
D. You can always by the touchpad keypad separately.
E. I personally think the clickpad would be bettern for gaming.
F. TI doesn't make clickpad calcs anymore, so you won't get some new evil downgrade protection :)
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« Reply #13 on: July 30, 2010, 02:35:55 pm »
Oh, we can get the touchpad seperatly?, I want it now
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« Reply #14 on: July 30, 2010, 02:41:28 pm »
Yeah, we can. It also seems like we can order the clickpad keypad separately too.

http://education.ti.com/educationportal/sites/US/productDetail/us_nspire_keypads.html
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